Malaysia men's national field hockey team

Malaysia
Nickname(s)	Malaysian Hockey Tigers (Speedy Tigers)
Association	Malaysian Hockey Confederation (Konfederasi Hoki Malaysia)
Confederation	AHF (Asia)
Head Coach
Assistant coach(es)	Amin Rahim
Manager	Stephen van Huizen
Captain	Sukri Mutalib
Most caps	Kuhan Shanmuganathan (341)
Top scorer	Razie Rahim (107)
Home	Away
FIH ranking
Current	11 1 (4 March 2022)
Highest	10 (2003)
Lowest	15 (2008–2010)
Olympic Games
Appearances	9 (first in 1956)
Best result	8th (1972)
World Cup
Appearances	8 (first in 1973)
Best result	4th (1975)
Asian Games
Appearances	16 (first in 1958)
Best result	2nd (, 2018)
Asia Cup
Appearances	10 (first in 1982)
Best result	2nd (2017)
Medal record
Asian Games
Asia Cup
Asian Champions Trophy
Commonwealth Games

The Malaysia men's national field hockey team (nicknamed Speedy Tigers) is made up of the best field hockey players in Malaysia. As of 16 October 2021, the team is ranked 10th in the world, and 2nd in Asia, by the International Hockey Federation.^[2] The governing body for the sports is the Malaysian Hockey Confederation.

Competition history[]

A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Malaysia and best results"

Summer Olympics[]

Summer Olympics
Year	Round
1956	Ninth place
1960	Did not qualify
1964	Ninth place
1968	Fifteenth place
1972	Eighth place
1976	Ninth place
1980	Did not participate
1984	Eleventh place
1988	Did not qualify
1992	Ninth place
1996	Eleventh place
2000	Eleventh place
2004	Did not qualify
2008	Did not qualify
2012	Did not qualify
2016	Did not qualify
2020	Did not qualify

World Cup[]

World Cup
Year	Round
1971	Did not qualify
1973	Eleventh place
1975	Fourth place
1978	Tenth place
1982	Tenth place
1986	Did not qualify
1990	Did not qualify
1994	Did not qualify
1998	Eleventh place
2002	Eighth place
2006	Did not qualify
2010	Did not qualify
2014	Twelfth place
2018	15th place

Asian Games[]

Asian Games
Year	Round
1958	Fourth place
1962
1966	Fourth place
1970	Fourth place
1974
1978
1982
1986	Fourth place
1990
1994	Fifth place
1998	Fifth place
2002
2006	Sixth place
2010
2014	Fourth place
2018

Asia Cup[]

Asia Cup
Year	Round
1982	Fourth place
1985	Fifth place
1989	Sixth place
1993	Fourth place
1999	Fourth place
2003	Fifth place
2007	Third place
2009	Fourth place
2013	Fourth place
2017	Runner-up

Asian Champions Trophy[]

Asian Champions Trophy record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
2011	Third place	3/6	6	3	1	2	15	12
2012	Third place	3/6	6	4	1	1	20	11
2013	Third place	3/6	6	3	0	3	17	12
2016	Third place	3/6	6	3	1	1	18	8
2018	Third place	3/6	7	3	3	1	20	10
Total	Best results: Third Place	Appearances: 5/5	31	16	6	8	90	54

Commonwealth Games[]

Commonwealth Games
Year	Round
1998
2006
2010	Eighth place
2014	Seventh place
2018	Fifth place

World League[]

FIH Hockey World League
Year	Round
2012–13	11th place
2014–15	12th place
2016–17	9th place

Champions Trophy[]

Champions Trophy
Year	Round
1993	Sixth place
2007	Eighth place

Champions Challenge[]

Champions Challenge
Year	Round
2001	Fourth place
2003	Sixth place
2011	Fifth place
2012	Fourth place
2014	Third place

Champions Challenge II[]

Champions Challenge II
Year	Round
2009	Fourth place

Sultan Azlan Shah Cup[]

Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
Year	Round
1983	Fourth place
1985
1987	Fourth place
1994	Fourth place
1999
2000	Fourth place
2007
2008	Seventh place
2009
2010	Fourth place
2011	Seventh place
2012	Sixth place
2013
2014
2015	Sixth place
2016	Fourth place
2017	Fifth place
2018	Fourth place
2019

Hockey Asean Cup[]


Year	Round

2011

Southeast Asian Games[]

SEA Games
Year	Round
1971
1973
1975
1977
1979
1981	Hockey not featured
1983
1985	Hockey not featured
1987
1989
1991	Hockey not featured
1993
1995
1997
1999

2003	Hockey not featured
2005	Hockey not featured
2007
2009	Hockey not featured
2011	Hockey not featured
2013
2015
2017
2019	Hockey not featured

Summer Youth Olympics[]

Summer Youth Olympics
Year	Round
2018

Junior team[]

Junior World Cup
Year	Host city	Position
1979	Versailles, France	4th
1982	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	4th
	Vancouver, Canada	10th
	Ipoh, Malaysia	12th
1993	Terrassa, Spain	6th
1997	Milton Keynes, England	DNQ
2001	Hobart, Australia	12th
2005	Rotterdam, Netherlands	10th
2009	Johor Bahru, Malaysia & Singapore	12th
2013	New Delhi, India	4th
2016	Lucknow, India	11th

Players[]

Current squad[]

The following 22 players were named on 14 April 2021 for in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[3]

Head coach:

Caps updated as of 30 March 2019, after the match against Canada.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
21	GK		(1992-01-07) 7 January 1992 (age 30)	58	Terengganu
	GK		(1997-02-19) 19 February 1997 (age 25)		UniKL
	GK		(1997-09-18) 18 September 1997 (age 24)	2	Maybank
29	GK		(1990-01-19) 19 January 1990 (age 32)	41

17	DF	Muhammad Razie Abdul Rahim	(1987-08-25) 25 August 1987 (age 34)	264	UniKL
6	DF	Muhammad Marhan Mohd. Jalil	(1990-03-05) 5 March 1990 (age 32)	242	UniKL
	DF				UniKL
11	DF		(1995-05-12) 12 May 1995 (age 26)	64	Tenaga Nasional Berhad
	DF		(1995-02-20) 20 February 1995 (age 27)		Tenaga Nasional Berhad
	DF		(1995-05-23) 23 May 1995 (age 26)		Tenaga Nasional Berhad
	DF		(1992-02-20) 20 February 1992 (age 30)		UniKL
	DF		(1995-04-04) 4 April 1995 (age 26)		Maybank

24	MF		(1996-06-19) 19 June 1996 (age 25)	85	Tenaga Nasional Berhad
	MF		(1992-02-18) 18 February 1992 (age 30)		Tenaga Nasional Berhad
	MF		(1991-04-01) 1 April 1991 (age 30)		Tenaga Nasional Berhad
8	MF		(1995-04-20) 20 April 1995 (age 26)	15	UniKL
20	MF		(1994-02-16) 16 February 1994 (age 28)	128	Maybank

3	FW		(1996-06-17) 17 June 1996 (age 25)	44	Tenaga Nasional Berhad
13	FW	Muhammad Firhan Ashaari	(1993-03-09) 9 March 1993 (age 29)	154	Tenaga Nasional Berhad
26	FW	Muhammad Shahril Saabah	(1994-03-28) 28 March 1994 (age 27)	120	Tenaga Nasional Berhad
10	FW	Faizal Saari	(1991-01-13) 13 January 1991 (age 31)	232	Terengganu
23	FW	Tengku Ahmad Tajuddin Tengku Abdul Jalil	(1986-01-05) 5 January 1986 (age 36)	280	Tenaga Nasional Berhad

Recent call-ups[]

The following players have been called up for the national team in the last 12 months.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club	Latest call-up
GK		(1997-09-18) 18 September 1997 (age 24)	2	Maybank	2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
GK	Kumar Subramaniam	(1979-11-26) 26 November 1979 (age 42)	310	Tenaga Nasional Berhad	2018 World Cup

DF		(1997-04-23) 23 April 1997 (age 24)	7	Terengganu	2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
DF		(2000-01-22) 22 January 2000 (age 22)	6	Tenaga Nasional Berhad	2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
DF	Sukri Mutalib	(1986-02-24) 24 February 1986 (age 36)	314	UniKL	2018-19 FIH Series Finals
DF		(1992-02-18) 18 February 1992 (age 30)	145	Tenaga Nasional Berhad	2018-19 FIH Series Finals
DF		(1995-04-04) 4 April 1995 (age 26)	67	UniKL	2018-19 FIH Series Finals

MF	Fitri Saari	(1993-03-04) 4 March 1993 (age 29)	143	Terengganu	2018-19 FIH Series Finals
MF		(1995-04-12) 12 April 1995 (age 26)	50	Tenaga Nasional Berhad	2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
MF		(1992-11-11) 11 November 1992 (age 29)	84		2018 World Cup

FW		(1999-10-03) 3 October 1999 (age 22)	6	Tenaga Nasional Berhad	2018-19 FIH Series Finals
FW		(2000-05-02) 2 May 2000 (age 21)	0	Tenaga Nasional Berhad	2018-19 FIH Series Finals

Malaysia vs. India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games on Delhi.

Records[]

Most Caps
#	Player	Caps	Career
1	Kuhan Shanmuganathan	330^[4]	1994–2007
2	Chua Boon Huat	337^[5]	1998–2013
3	Azlan Misron	350	2002–
4	Nor Saiful Zaini	329^[6]	1985–2001
5	Mirnawan Nawawi	327^[7]	1989–2002

Notable former players[]

Azlan Misron
Baljit Singh Charun
Chairil Anwar
Chua Boon Huat
Jiwa Mohan
Keevan Raj
Kevin Nunis
Kuhan Shanmuganathan
Maninderjit Singh
Mirnawan Nawawi
Nor Azlan Bakar
Nor Saiful Zaini
Peter van Huizen
Poon Fook Loke
Khairuddin Zainal
Roslan Jamaluddin
Sarjit Singh
Shahrun Nabil
Stephen van Huizen
Tai Beng Hai
Soon Mustafa Karim

Coaches[]

Period	Coach
1955	Gian Singh^[1]
1956	^[2]
1958 & 1960	M Anwar Beg Moghal^[3]
1961
1961	M Anwar Beg Moghal^[3]
1962
1963	^[4]
1964	Randhir Singh Gentle^[5]
1964	Kishan Lal
1966, 1967–68	^[6]
1969
1970	Datuk Ho Koh Chye
1971
1971	Michael Arulraj
1972
1973	Datuk Ho Koh Chye
1973	Michael Arulraj
1974	Datuk Ho Koh Chye
1974
1975	Datuk Ho Koh Chye
1976
1977
1978	Datuk Ho Koh Chye
1979
1980–1981
1981–1982
1982–1986
1987–1988	Datuk Sri Shanmuganathan
1988–1989
1990–1993	Terry Walsh
1994 & 1995	Stephen van Huizen^[7]
1994–1998
1998–1999
Oct 1998– Mar 2001	Stephen van Huizen
Mar 2001–2004
2004–2006
2006–2008	Sarjit Singh
2009	Tai Beng Hai
2010	Stephen van Huizen
2011	Tai Beng Hai
2012–2014
2014
2015	Tai Beng Hai
2016–2018	Stephen van Huizen
2018–2020	Roelant Oltmans
2020–

^ First foreign coach.
^ First Malayan coach for 1956 Olympic Games but did not go to Melbourne.
^ ^a ^b Served as tactical coach for 1958 Asian Games, test match against Korea in 1960 and home international against in 1961.
^ First Malaysian coach.
^ Coach the Malaysian team for three-month only.
^ Coach the Malaysian team for 1966 Asian Games, return in December 1967 for 1968 Olympics.
^ Handled the national team for a month in 1994, in charge for 1995 Southeast Asian Games.

References[]

^ "FIH Men's and Women's World Ranking". FIH. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
^ "FIH Men's World Rankings – 10 December 2012" (PDF). International Hockey Federation. 10 December 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
^ Ali, Nurjannah (19 April 2019). "Fih Siri Akhir Lelaki Kuala Lumpur 2019: Keyakinan Saya Cukup Tinggi Pada Mereka — Roelant". mhc.org.my (in Malay). Malaysian Hockey Confederation. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ http://www.fih.ch/en/news-4636-chua-boon-huat-passes-away
^ http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2001&dt=1205&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Sukan&pg=su_02.htm^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links[]

[r1-8] First foreign coach.

[r2-9] First Malayan coach for 1956 Olympic Games but did not go to Melbourne.

[r3-10] Served as tactical coach for 1958 Asian Games, test match against Korea in 1960 and home international against in 1961.

[r4-11] First Malaysian coach.

[r5-12] Coach the Malaysian team for three-month only.

[r6-13] Coach the Malaysian team for 1966 Asian Games, return in December 1967 for 1968 Olympics.

[r7-14] Handled the national team for a month in 1994, in charge for 1995 Southeast Asian Games.

[FIH_World_Rankings-1] "FIH Men's and Women's World Ranking". FIH. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.

[2] "FIH Men's World Rankings – 10 December 2012" (PDF). International Hockey Federation. 10 December 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2013.

[3] Ali, Nurjannah (19 April 2019). "Fih Siri Akhir Lelaki Kuala Lumpur 2019: Keyakinan Saya Cukup Tinggi Pada Mereka — Roelant". mhc.org.my (in Malay). Malaysian Hockey Confederation. Retrieved 21 April 2019.

[4] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[5] ttp://www.fih.ch/en/news-4636-chua-boon-huat-passes-away

[6] ttp://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2001&dt=1205&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Sukan&pg=su_02.htm^{[permanent dead link]}

[7] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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